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It’s complicated: President Obama and mass movement building
August 25, 2011The building of a mass movement on the scale of the 1930s or 1960s is a complicated process, despite the many-sided problems today's movement has the potential to eclipse them.
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Monument to freedom
August 25, 2011The idea of a memorial to Dr. King was first proposed 27 years ago. His monument is the first on the National Mall not dedicated to a president.
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The Beer Evolution: New yeast discovered in Patagonian forest
August 24, 2011Beer has a history of working-class identity and is now experiencing a revolution of its own, on the microbiological level.
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Libya: NATO sets dangerous precedent
August 24, 2011Rebel troops have broken through to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The NATO intervention has been decisive, and that should trouble us.
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The Strauss-Kahn dismissal: Blaming the victim, again
August 24, 2011For a while, it looked like the victim might have her day in court, and win justice.
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